Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williams leaped for a header which dropped over Ian Walker and just under the bar — with the keeper finding he had taken one step too many off his line . |
| 2 | In two days at Snetterton , first in the company of Benetton 's Formula One driver Martin Brundle and then at the wheel of the Snetterton school 's racing cars , I found that the limits of my own prudence , dependability and , even , sanity were disturbingly slim . |
| 3 | In Walsall Wood erm as I say , we used to have er two big bags full on a Fri Friday and then in the week we could go up but you 've got your bread but , you know , yo the men would be , I can just picture them with their little , all this pretty coloured paper would all be in little piles and when there were no customers , they would be wrapping the rice , the raisins , the currants , all in these pretty papers you see and they knew , I mean you 'd ask them for currants and they never sort of knew , I did n't quite understand how they could pick by , it 'd be by the paper you see . |
| 4 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 5 | The generation of meaning unintended by the author , in the reading process , is dependent on a structure of intended meaning : the Hilary-Joy equivalence in Small World , for instance , is brought into play partly by the percipience of A. S. Byatt and partly by the fact that that novel is by intention full of doubles and pairs and symmetries and heavily connotative names . |
| 6 | ‘ We worked very closely with them on the hardware configuration , first in Oslo and then on the boat in Singapore , checking that our resources were capable of what we wanted to do . |
| 7 | ‘ Your friend , she is not with you ? ’ he enquired , with a solicitous bob first at Dora and then towards the door . |
| 8 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 9 | Tickets are absolutely free , and available from Roland UK , from Roland dealers in Ireland or simply on the door . |
| 10 | In Eretz family life will not be the same as you have known here in Cork or anywhere in the Diaspora because in the settlements women are involved in communal work just as much as the men are . |
| 11 | In the higher dales haymaking was sometimes delayed , for weather and other reasons , until the middle of July or even towards the end of August . |
| 12 | The English Vice-Governor of the Galapagos told Darwin that even within the archipelago , there was variety : the tortoises on each island were slightly different , so that it was possible to tell which island they came from . |
| 13 | Yet , one of the catchwords that has been widely heard in Washington and elsewhere during the run up to the war has been the need to create a democratic environment in the Middle East after the war is over . |
| 14 | It 's a long walk to Meall Corranaich and just before the top , the ridge splits away to the west which causes some confusion in poor visibility . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. Friend undertake to arrange a debate before Christmas , or at least before the December Council of Ministers meeting on fishing , so that we may have our annual chance to discuss the state of the fishing industry in England and elsewhere in the kingdom ? |
| 16 | I mean the Welsh population in percentage terms is now rising more rapidly than that of England and therefore by the year two thousand and one when the next review would take place er we er will certainly fully occupy if you like , that fifth seat in terms of the average size because Welsh Euro constituencies were during the past ten years , very slightly larger on average than those in England and so er we are moving from under representation to slight over representation for a temporary period er simply because er you know Wales is regarded as indivisible for this purpose and that 's why we welcomed this debate . |
| 17 | It is a fact that , due to Moorish occupation , Christian buildings exist mainly in the northern half of the country in a broad band stretching from the Pyrenees down the Mediterranean coast to Tarragona and across to the west coast at Santiago , but , because of the Moslem domination , the Christian opposition in Spain was warlike and strong and Romanesque architecture reflects this spirit . |
| 18 | From the Bloody Bush pillar retrace your steps , going back into Scotland until just before the summit of the hill you see a small cairn on the right . |
| 19 | There was no home leave from overseas and , as far as I knew , few individuals or units of the Eighth Army had returned to Britain , for most had been sent to Sicily and thence to the toe and heel of Italy , or to Salerno , and by this time were fighting hard up the Italian peninsula on one or other side of the Appennines . |
| 20 | ‘ Copyright should theoretically have belonged to Katherine and now to the estate , ’ he says . |
| 21 | To Bobby Hunt , Minton wrote : ‘ We 've done and been done by Venice , Padua , Rome , Florence and now on the Côte , dare I say d'Azur . |
| 22 | Whereas Long Riston used to be totally agricultural with ancillary trades , joiner , blacksmith etc ( at one time there were three blacksmiths in the village ) , it is now still agricultural but in the modern way , and most of the population earn their living in Hull , Beverley and elsewhere in the district . |
| 23 | His Canadian passport was beautifully forged and had brought him effortlessly into the Republic of Ireland and thence on the ferry to England . |
| 24 | Yet in Malta , in Northern Ireland and especially in the Republic that is what has often been requested or demanded by party organizers and by candidates . |
| 25 | They will have noted the strong support for Maastricht not only in the Bundestag but also in the Bundesrat , the upper chamber representing Germany 's independent-minded Länder ( states ) . |
| 26 | On the defendant 's appeal , the Court of Appeal held that if the mother 's signature on the transfer was a forgery , the register could be rectified under section 82 of the Land Registration Act 1925not only against C. and D. but also against the building society , set aside the order for possession against the defendant and ordered a new trial to determine the facts regarding the execution of the transfer . |
| 27 | Troop Sergeant-Major Haines — landed from ML 6 — reported to Newman and early in the fight lay out in the open with a 2-inch ( 51mm ) mortar firing on the guns across the submarine basin . |
| 28 | The first is the world of terror and death ; the second is referred to by Hitlerites from Germany and elsewhere as the world of barbarians . |
| 29 | The society now moved from the rather passive position of regretting ( as it did on 5 August 1789 ) that ‘ there was no appropriate educational establishment in England for the desired improvement of farriery ( in this context comprehending the medical treatment of horses , cattle and sheep ) by a regular education in that science on medical and anatomical principles ’ , to a positive position of recommending such an institution as had been established in France , Germany and elsewhere on the Continent , as being necessary in this country . |
| 30 | Hofmann returned to Berlin , to the most prestigious chair of chemistry in Germany and thus in the world , in 1865 , somewhat disappointed at the slow development of chemistry in Britain . |